by Sanaa El Alaoui
This short story is about revenge and murder and written with
great art as it contains
narration )
the voice of Allen Poe ( , precision )
related literary words( pace )
continuous rhythm in
telling
this brilliant story ( and conflict with two everlasting
protagonists .
Surely , this story is narrated by
Poe without giving us a clue why Montresor
wants to kill
Fortunato , two symbolic names carefully
chosen by the writer art of telling his story . Fortunato is
an ironic name that stands for fortune and
luck . In the contrary, Fortunato has
no chance to escape
from a
terrible death already plotted by Montresor . Montresor is also
an ironic name, which means
secret
treasure and surely Montresor is too much secretive and an inner person
motivated by
revenge and
murder and this is revealed by him in this confusing sentence “ The Thousand of
Fortunato I
has borne as best I could ; but he ventured upon consult , I vowed revenge “ it
means
that
Montresor is a well educated person, positioned in good stature , I am injured
many times by
Fortunto .
Although in filmic adaptations, some filmmakers depicts Fortunato as a
slave or valet )
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It really depends on how one reads
this powerful story .Filmmakers or screenwriters write and
rewrite
Allen Poe story according to their own imagination and of course, styles vary
in treating the
theme, the
structure and the plot of the story.
In
the structure of the story, Montresor works out a plan very carefully to murder
Fortunato ,
he must
take him to the vault , already a metaphoric place of darkness and buried death
of the family
In my point
of view , this is the major inciting incident that motivates the writer to lead
the
protagonist
to the vault . By the way, Montresor is an evil man , an opponent and an
antagonist in
the story .
We have conflict between two
characters .One is very drunk, fortunato , and Montrsor is the master mind of plotting the death of his mate . The mysterious journey takes awhile as Montrsor
tries to convince Fortunato to taste the wine of Amontilado . Fortunado is a man of vanity and pride it is his secret weakness , while Fortunato is a rich man who believes in himself . He knows that his deed will succeed .He suggests that there is a much better connoisseur for tasting wine and of course Fortunato , because of his pride, he says that he is the best connoisseur to taste wine , and this is exactly what Montresor wants to hear from his enemy, choosing his own death .
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